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provision to empower the Director of Electrical and Mechanical Services to disconnect any unsafe electrical installation when there is imminent risk of an electrical accident.
These measured are considered to be adequate to prevent the outbreak of fires due to power leakage.
Language benchmark pilot exercise
Following is a question by the Hon Cheung Bing-leung and a written reply by the Secretary for Education and Manpower, Mr Joseph W P Wong, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Question:
Regarding the Secretary for Education and Manpower's recent proposal to require primary and secondary school teachers to participate in the language benchmark pilot exercise, will the Government inform this Council:
(a)
(b)
of the date of introducing the above language benchmark pilot exercise and the specific details of the pilot exercise;
of the following information regarding specialised language training of school teachers:
(i) the respective numbers of Chinese language teachers in primary and secondary schools who have received specialised language training;
(ii)
(iii)
the respective numbers of Chinese language teachers in primary and secondary schools who have not received specialised language training;
the respective number of English language teachers in primary and secondary schools who have received specialised language training;